The mission of the incubator is to provide free access to UBB students to a framework aimed to stimulate innovative thinking and to promote a collaborative and integrated environment to encourage entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial initiatives.
The main goal of the UBB Student i-Lab Business Incubator is to offer students from various specializations within Babeș-Bolyai University the opportunity to implement the knowledge they have acquired by facilitating access to specialized support and an appropriate framework for the learning and networking process.
Components
(1) Entrepreneurship
The incubator will complement the intra-university ecosystem by ensuring the continuity of business concepts created by students within the entrepreneurship courses offered by the faculties of Babeș-Bolyai University. This will facilitate increased commercialization/valorization of innovative business concepts, as well as their transformation into successful businesses. The incubator will provide students interested in entrepreneurship with the opportunity to identify partners who can complement the need for knowledge and expertise in the field targeted by the business concept, offering a suitable framework for promoting interdisciplinary collaboration among students with various aspects of educational training.
(2) Intrapreneurship
The incubator will provide an innovation framework for intrapreneurship projects, starting from real challenges faced by companies, as well as activities/programs they wish to develop with the involvement of students. Intrapreneurship projects can serve as a source of extrabudgetary funding to support competitions and events held within the incubator and facilitate partnerships with the business environment and social economy interested in affiliating their activities with the business incubator.